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WizarDru loves Boardgames @wizardru.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The second I saw the pic, I knew we were talking about the laugh a minor part that is GE999.

A picture from an episode of Galaxy Express 999, where a young boy finds a face-down dying body in the sewer of his mother, wounded while acting in a rebellion on their planet.

WizarDru loves Boardgames @wizardru.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

When I see Kickstarters by people who think just the act of having an idea means that they should just get the thing and then use AI to do it? They don't understand that people who do what they want do didn't just do it, they organically learned how to do it.

A picture of Ned Flander's beatnik parents from The Simpsons, saying "We've Tried Nothing and We're All Out of Ideas!"

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WizarDru loves Boardgames @wizardru.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I have no idea what you're talking about, but I wondered...didn't restoration's kickstarter finally land? Scrolled all the way down the page and I'm guessing non-normal idiots don't like this?

A picture of some art from Restoration Game's new 'King's Gambit' boardgame, featuring Legolas, Gimli and Aragorn leaping from a boat (probably at the Battle of the Pelinor Fields, which the game simulates).

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WizarDru loves Boardgames @wizardru.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

In Neena’s defense, he is Fine as Five Fridays.

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WizarDru loves Boardgames @wizardru.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Huh. Can’t tell if this is an intentional riff or bot.

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WizarDru loves Boardgames @wizardru.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This weekends painting project was to paint these ‘minis’ for #Trilaterum. Showa-era Godzilla and Gigan are spot-on. I have dubbed the order two Not-Jaguar and MEH-Doran, the Smug Monster.

Picture of a painted miniature of Godzilla from the Showa-era movies on my craft desk.

A picture of a brightly painted miniature of the Kaiju Gigan, a space alien with hooks for hands, sitting on my craft table, painted bright green, yellow and bronze.

A picture of a giant robot modeled after the Kaiju Jet Jaguar from ‘Godzilla versus Gigan’ and a purple monster made of tentacles that resembles Hedorah, smog monster from a previous Godzilla movie.

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WizarDru loves Boardgames @wizardru.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Chuck, upon learning which movie he watched:

George Clooney as Ulysses Everertt McGill from "Oh Brother, Where art thou", the Coen Brothers movie re-imagining the classic poem 'The Odyessy' as a Depression-era travel movie. He is standing in a barn, looking out at police pursuit (he is at that moment a fugitive from a chain gang) and saying 'Damn! We're in a tight spot!' - a phrase he repeats several times during his adventure. He is a Dapper Dan man.

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WizarDru loves Boardgames @wizardru.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I also bet when he says he 'intends to display it in Times Square' that he hasn't looked into permits or any of the requirements allowing him to do it. Fearless Girl may have appeared suddenly, but it was commisioned.

The statue 'Fearless Girl', a bronze statue placed on Wall Street in front of it's famous Bull Statue, to promote gender diversity within the financial world, commisioned by State Street investment. It's surprise appearance made a lot of news stories. It was moved when the Bull statue's sculptor complained that it had made his statue 'a negative force', so it was relocated further down Wall Street. State Street backed away from it along with its other diversity efforts and there is concern about it's future.

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WizarDru loves Boardgames @wizardru.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

oh no, I’ve become a ‘express the lemon over the cocktail’ kind of guy.

Pictures of a passion fruit whiskey sour in a Nick and Nora glass on a nerdy coaster on a too crowded coffee table

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WizarDru loves Boardgames @wizardru.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

I'm super late to getting into #Shadowdark, but great goddamn I like this passage. I think we're gonna be friends.

From the Shadowdark manual: "THE PACT -You and your players are gaming together to have fun, prop each other up, and strengthen bonds.
This is The Pact.
The Pact is often unspoken and unseen, but it is always felt. It is based on goodwill, respect, and fellowship.
Its enemies are selfishness, antagonism, and arrogance.
Decisions made to defend The Pact are always good ones."

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WizarDru loves Boardgames @wizardru.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Lavender Jack by @danschkade.bsky.social is filled with so many good characters, they can very no favorites, but DAMN I love Detective Madame Ferrier. She’s smart, but sympathetic to people, burdened with tragedy but still committed to truth. I love this comic SO DAMN MUCH.

A picture of two planes from Lavender Jack volume 1, showing Detective Madame Ferrier looking at a painting by her wife.

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WizarDru loves Boardgames @wizardru.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

@katebeaton.bsky.social knows something of youthful Kings and their exuberance.

A comic strip by Katen Beaton from her 'Hark, A Vagrant' comics. A monk is talking to a Edward, the Black Prince after the Battle of Crecy. The monk asks how Edward is feeling, to which he replies "BRO I AM STOKED" and 'Those French Guys were like WHOOOOAAA', to which the monk, who is recording the event for posterity says "I keep forgetting you are Sixteeen" and Edward yells "and my army was like 'EAT IT'! KA-CHOW!"

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WizarDru loves Boardgames @wizardru.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

What have they done to poor Rudiger Dorn?!? It’s like they found his burned photo in the fireplace in a police procedural.

Terrible AI-scraped picture of boardgames designer Rudiger Dorn with some AI generated images of what are probably meant to be sooner or his games but tacky just look like random graphics.

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WizarDru loves Boardgames @wizardru.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Today on Shocked!, Shocked!...well, not that Shocked: about 0.1% of users on Polymarket and Kalshi actually take in about 67% of the profits from prediction markets. The WSJ article about it isn't surprising - it's the Defi/Meme stock game all over again - It's sad, but not a surprise.

Graphic from the Wall Street Journal of user accounts in Polymarket and showing that only 0.1% of accounts earn 67% of the profits on the predictive markets they host. The remaining 33% of the profits is dividied up through about 25% of the remaining users.

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WizarDru loves Boardgames @wizardru.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

CRACKING GOOD STORY. If you’re looking for a modern take on a pulp hero, RUN DO NOT WALK and pick up #LavenderJack by @danschkade.bsky.social It’s so darned good (reposting because I forgot ALT text)

A picture of a table in a front porch with a cocktail glass sitting on the table containing a Tom Collins. Next to it is copy of Lavender Jack, a graphic novel from Dan Schkade.

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WizarDru loves Boardgames @wizardru.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

TFW you see memory for a new desktop costs more THAN YOUR FIRST HOUSE.

A screenshot of a configuration screen for a Dell desktop showing the process of memory, with 6x256GB memory modules being $160,920.

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WizarDru loves Boardgames @wizardru.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Yeah I’m religious. I believe in the Holy Trinity.

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WizarDru loves Boardgames @wizardru.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

This IMDB posting shouldn't be nearly as funny to me as it is. Clearly this entry could have used an 'editer' of its own.

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WizarDru loves Boardgames @wizardru.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

At my meetup, one of the women who goes there said ‘you’d appreciate this: I backed some games in KS, then forgot I did and bought them at pAXU’ and sold me this lovely extra copy of “Hercules and the 12 Labors” from @envyborngames.bsky.social Also: I FEEL ATTACKED. Also Also: she wasn’t wrong.

Picture of a game of Hercules and the 12 Labors in progress on a game table, with dice and cards laid out showing a battle with the Ermanthian Boar.

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WizarDru loves Boardgames @wizardru.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

There is character in Marvel comics called Stegron, a scientist who becomes a dinosaur ABs uses his knowledge to do it to other people. THAT is Elon Musk, really. He doesn’t want to solve cancer, he wants to turn people into dinosaurs. That’s fun. Stopping famine? Meh. 5/5

Stegron, a Marvel comics character who is a human-dinosaur hybrid telling spider-man that he doesn’t want to cure cancer, here wants to turn people into dinosaurs.

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WizarDru loves Boardgames @wizardru.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

I will bang this drum on the regular - the Flash Gordon daily strip by @danschkade.bsky.social is a masterclass in short form storytelling. The art and text just do so much in a small space. Hopefully we'll get print collections eventually, ...and that will be a great day. Also: Bok is GREAT

A closeup panel from the January 14th 2026 Flash Gordon comic strip by Dan Schadke. The dragon-man Bok faces down an assassin with second person narration saying: "The World is a Weapon. And everyone is a target."

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WizarDru loves Boardgames @wizardru.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

I wonder if a lot of the stuff Claremont got through was because Shooter was too much a straight square to see it. I mean, it's barely subtext here:

A series of panels from an Alan Davis drawn issue of Excalibur. It's Kitty Pryde's birthday and she and Courtney Ross (secretly the villainess Saturnyne) are taking about celebrating - and while talking, eating frosting off of Courtney's finger in a very suggestive sequence.

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WizarDru loves Boardgames @wizardru.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

It's gonna be a Portland Syrups Dry January...or @troegsjason.bsky.social Drinky January. I'm getting mixed messages here, Inbox. Cue Morgan Freeman: "It would NOT be a Dry January."

Screen shot of my inbox, featuring a header of an email from Troegs Brewerey about Nugget Nectar beer being available right after a post from Portland Syrups about using their syrups for Dry January and making mocktails.

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WizarDru loves Boardgames @wizardru.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Yes. Fun fact: Spider-Man teamed up with Red Sonja once in a Chris Claremont-penned comic. He didn't change Spider-Man because he wanted him to experience his revenge.

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WizarDru loves Boardgames @wizardru.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Nah, he was already huge a few years before this. Wolverine was a breakout character (in part because he was a favorite of John Byrne's) and he became THE character after 1980's Hellfire Club issues, at the least. Cerberus was already parodying his popularity a year before Secret Wars.

Picture of the covers of Cerebus 54-56 from 1983, featuring the Wolverine parody character, the Wolveroach, a parody of Marvel's Wolverine of the X-Men.

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WizarDru loves Boardgames @wizardru.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

In 'Angry Planet', the couple get a stay on a planet where everyone has no filter and get angry VERY easily. At the same time, Duke Mech -friend of Count Mecha from episode 1, apparently- has sent assassins to kill Tetsuro. Maetel is in full bad-ass mode this time out, thankfully. 8/20

Picture of Maetel pointing a space blaster directly at the camera, dressed for some reason in a bikini with an overcoat. Forget it Jake, It's Galaxy Express 999.

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WizarDru loves Boardgames @wizardru.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

So I continue on my watch-through of #GalaxyExpress999 - and it remains depressingly appropriate to the current moment. And while it has its flaws both narratively and culturally (it IS almost 50 years old now), it remains a solid and enjoyable watch that holds my attention. 1/20

Picture of two robed figures of whom no features can be seen, one a tall one with a green shroud and a much shorter one in a blue shroud, staning near a door in a train car on the Galaxy Express. The taller one, the mother, is saying "My son, for whatever reason, said he wouldn't take your body." While it is not immediately obvious here, they are ghosts from the planet Filament.

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WizarDru loves Boardgames @wizardru.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Set up and ready to latest Ultra Kaiju City at #UnPub at #PAXU2025. Now I just need players. :)

Picture of prototype boardgame, Ultra Kaiju City.

Picture of sign for Ultra Kaiju City boardgame at pAX Unplugged 2025

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WizarDru loves Boardgames @wizardru.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

In both episodes watched (28 and 29), the classic question: 'WHY ARE YOU EVEN GETTING OFF THE TRAIN HERE?'. First is the Planet of Mirages, a hot desert planet. Maetel switches to a bathing suit, but Tetsuro doesn't strip down. The second's a hot jungle, but she stays wearing her normal outfit. 2/7

A picture from Galaxy Express 999 with Maetel in a bathing suit and Testuro in casual clothes walking in a green field on the Planet of Mirages.

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WizarDru loves Boardgames @wizardru.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

As I continue my slow roll through #GalaxyExpress999, I find that the show remains both utterly ridiculous and incredibly engaging. In hindsight, the concept of the show is kind of outrageous: there's no toy sales here, no easy answers; only a small recurring cast and big ideas. 1/

A picture from the Galaxy Express 999 Episode - "The Continent of Sakezan" where a sake-obsessed Tarzan-wannabe holds Maetel and Tetsuro prisoner. In this picture, a sitting Sakezan is receiving sake being poured from a container by a kneeling and captive Maetel.

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WizarDru loves Boardgames @wizardru.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

A reminder that the Flash Gordon daily comic is REALLY FRIGGING GOOD and you should read it. @danschkade.bsky.social has made me care about Flash and his world for the first time since the 1980 Michael Hodges film. But that was high camp and this is High Adventure. comicskingdom.com/flash-gordon...

A picture of one panel from the daily Flash Gordon strip. The characters of Aura, Bok, Bones and Flash Gordon are paused at the exit to a stone tunnel, Flash stands ready with a sword for a fight, while Princess Aura appears surprised at something. Bones appears unconcerned with a sword resting on her shoulder, while Bok appears pensive.

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WizarDru loves Boardgames @wizardru.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Keep in mind they've been here for an hour? The natives realize Maetel tricked them as she's trying to sneak him out, she gets beaten up and then tied up for volcano sacrifice super-quick. Tetsuro, who escaped, decides to save her. 25/30

Maetel and Tetsuro, in their underwear are in a cave where she rescued him from falling to his death. They are discussing escape from the primitive planet's mutant natives.

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WizarDru loves Boardgames @wizardru.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Episode 21 introduces Pirate Queen Emerldas (recently in Captain Harlock) into GE999. Maetel's rivalry in the past with here is referenced without any explanation. It's fun, but kind of a shaggy dog story. 15/30

Tetsuro is in a pirate ship's captain's quarters, hat in hand talking to the pirate queen Emerldas, who is lying in bed, struck with an unnamed illness or condition that has rendered her weak enough to use a robot doppelganger to run her ship.

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WizarDru loves Boardgames @wizardru.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Episode 20 introduces a new passenger on the train, which guarantees his death by the end of the story, because he's a nice person. His body is wood and he sacrifices himself after meeting Tetsuro, who reawakened his love of painting. 13/30

Picture of a cyborg with a wooden body who befriends Testuro aboard the Galaxy Express.

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WizarDru loves Boardgames @wizardru.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

He's rescued by a professional gunslinger, who then starts training Tetsuro (apparently unaware he's not a cyborg). Maetel is forced to gun him down in a duel (showing she has faster reflexes and is a gunslinger herself) to free Tetsuro. They return to the train. 9/30

Tetsuro and a cyborg gunslinger who looks like a classic wild west cowboy face off in a duel, while the gunslinger tells Tetsuro he needs to master gunfighting because 'Only professionals can survive in the lawless ares of space."

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WizarDru loves Boardgames @wizardru.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

The world's on fire and I JUST CAN'T, so let's talk more about #GalaxyExpress999. Our watchthrough continues, but slowed down because my daughter wants to watch with us, which is the best reason. 1/30

Picture of the engine car of the Galaxy Express 999, which appears to be a classic example of a steam locomotive, but it's travelling through space.

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WizarDru loves Boardgames @wizardru.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

The fact that Peter Parker used to dress like this and referenced that hot young actress Mia Farrow lives rent-free in my head.

A picture of Peter Parker from Spider-Man in 1970, wearing a yellow vest with tassels on them, evoking a cowboy outfit. Beneath that he's wearing a black shirt and blue slacks, with purple socks and brown leather penny-loafers, thinking to himself that he has a chance to 'do what Peter Parker does best', which in this case is to change into his Spider-Man costume and rescue someone.

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